last month and repaved and passed that sidewalk, completed natoma street. some restoration work at howard that was left to be done got finished this month. as many of you are aware and some of you attended, we had a special event on site to commemorate the completion of the demolition and starting of the shoring wall and buttress work. appreciate everybody who was able to make that. and there are the hours to date with local labor running right around 70%. total labor being worked on in the transit center. happy to take any questions. thank you very much. >> just a few questions. this is a great report and looks like it is making good progress. how are we doing specifically relative to budget and schedule? >> still very well. there are still, as the executive director pointed out -- we are waiting for those 100% cd drawings that spring, and that is more on the pre- construction site which turner is now working on. >> on the construction side, going well, there have been a few unknowns. we had it at the 72 shafts to the such as planned, so the change order w

street. but the other packages are wrapping up quickly, and we just finished the phase 1 work with pg&e as well, so that released the final s your work on natoma. the first street to be completed, which allows the western end to be able to go in completely. as far as the transit center operation, the 301 mission was completed in july, since our last board meeting. we're in the close-out progress there. trans world with the contractor, and they are submitting their documentation. the tjpa is reviewing a final change order request that has come in on that, and we will work through that this month and finalize that shortly. on the buttress shoring excavation package, the main package that is working, and we celebrating cent of the beginning of that yesterday at the event. the shoring walt is about 75% complete in the eastern zone. they're finishing up crossing field street and doing the far eastern wall, but the north and south walls of what we call a zone four. that shoring wall is complete so that the buttress shoring operation can begin. one of the machines as move down to the west end of the project and started the shoring while at first stre

street. but the other packages are wrapping up quickly, and we just finished the phase 1 work with pg&e as well, so that released the final s your work on natoma. the first street to be completed, which allows the western end to be able to go in completely. as far as the transit center operation, the 301 mission was completed in july, since our last board

crosswalks for some of those ballets that are truly real streets with people living on them, but they are not very safe right now. particularly, mina and natoma. we will bring you a final report after the plans that step, which is to generate some refined designs. also, on the by county transportation study, the southeast quadrant of the city, a significant study. we presented a final list of projects and likely cost ranges, which are fairly significant to our counterparts, san the tail county, other parties, and a milestone agreement that these are the right cost of agreements. this is something that has been in the works for decades. as a given milestone. -- a significant milestone. we will be issuing debt in the fall. to conclude my report, i am pleased to let you know that we have filled two transportation planner positions and we have both of the planners are here. colin interned with us a year or so ago. he had a focus of transportation from uc-berkeley. he worked for the city of oakland, worked for the new york regional plan association, and for arlington county in virginia. he also served as a legislative intern for then-senator joe b